How do you remove Authorship photos from your homepage?

[wattssw]

Suppose you have a website with a blog on it, and you show a few recent blog posts on the homepage. Google see the headline + by Author Name and associates that user's Google+ profile.

This is great for the actual blog posts, but how do you prevent this from happening on the homepage or other blog roll page?

[TomRayner]

Hi Stephen

Basically, all you need to do is make sure that the rel=author code is not in the tag of that page.

The code will look something like rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/112656687930780652496"/> but obviously with the G+ profile URL that you are talking about.

If that code isn't on the page, then Google will not verify the page as marked by an author.

If you've gone a different way and linked by an actual URL on the page, like Name here - again all you need to do is just make sure that this link isn't present on the page and the authorship markup won't be attributed to that page.

Hope this helps.

[wattssw]

Hi Tom, thanks for the response but that doesn't work.

There is no link to a Google+ profile on this page - the Author, though, is verified by the domain name and the page includes "by", causing this.

Any other thoughts?

[RyanOD]

I have a similar issue. For whatever reason, Google has decided our CEO (Glen Kelman) is the 'author' of some of our site pages. There is no author markup on the page anywhere. In fact, our CEO's name isn't anywhere on the page. Yet, in SERPs, he is the 'author' of our Seattle market page (you can likely see it by searching for 'seattle real estate' and looking for Redfin in the results).

Glen is a prolific blogger who not only posts to the Redfin blog, but also guest blogs on high profile sites around the web so it stands to reason that Google is very 'familiar' with him as an author. Moreover, he lives in Seattle so maybe Google is thinking, "Glen is from Seattle...he's the CEO of Redfin...he's a prolific author...Glen + Seattle + Redfin + Author = Glen is the author of the Seattle market page on Redfin!"

Any ideas on how to stop Google from making this mistake?